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“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”

People Love Needs Helping Happiness Young Peace Love Is Poor Family Spread Excluded

Author:Pope Francis

“We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.”

Matter Water Poor Family Hot Hot Water Bathtubs

Author:Tom Dreesen

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.”

“The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.”

Source: Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession

“In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act”

World Love Self Happiness Culture Friendship Poor Family Rich Relationship Involved Cash Selfless Commodity Volunteer Precious Time

Author:Sally Brampton

“I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?”

Life Believe Children Inspiration Faith I Believe Memories Poor Family Gone Rich Inspirational Life Garden Rose My Children Familia Those Who Came Before Us

Book:Esperanza Rising

Source: Esperanza Rising

“A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.”

Poor Family Pieces Conscience Shadow Relation Prosperity Irrelevant Scorn Haunting Correspondence Approximation Pertinent

Author:Charles Lamb

“The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.”

Important Poor Family Kings Queens Powerless Conqueror Kings And Queens

Book:Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President

Source: Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President

“You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good”

People Love Should Doe Happiness Values Friendship Poor Family Rich Relationship Balance Size Being Rich Good Family

Author:Jackie Ballard

“Poverty is not natural; it is man-made”

Men Love Life Made Happiness Success Natural Poor Attitude Family Poverty Humanitarian Apartheid Ending Poverty Long Walk To Freedom World Poverty Global Poverty

Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

Poor Family Relation Irrelevant Approximation Irrelevance

Author:Charles Lamb

“Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.”

Poor Family Shots Daddy Bangs Clicks Your Dad Poor Me

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.”

Men Has Beens Poor Leader Family He Man Band Legacy

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.”

Dies Father Waiting Poor Family Rich Cry Son Drink

Author:Lou Reed

“Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.”